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POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 2. THEIR AVARICE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctor lives by chicken pox, / by measles, and by mumps
Last Line: "the man must live!"" but why?"
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE doctor lives by chicken pox,
by measles, and by mumps.
He keeps a microbe in a box
and cheers him when he jumps

at unsuspecting children, who
have two important nurses;
but if it bounds where less than two
are kept, he simply curses.

His greed is such that though you ache
in every limb, be sure
if there is nothing else to take,
he'll take your temperature.

And if at first he can't succeed,
he has another try,
and takes your pulse. Some people plead
"The man must live!" But why?





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